8/2/2019 Overview of the Threefold Idea

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IN AMERICA, AND IN EACH COUNTRY,there will be three sectors or Economic, Political, and Cultural

aairs, each with their own leadership. Te three sectors will be

as structurally independent rom each other as oreign countries are

today. Tere will be three executives, three capital cities, and three

ags in each country. Each individual human being in the country

will be a member o all three sectors: as an entrepreneur, worker, and

consumer in the Business sector, as a citizen in the Political sector,

and as a ree participant and patron in the non-proft/non-govern-

mental Cultural sector.

Te Economic sectorwill run the economy without Gov-ernment intererence. Te various For-Proft Businesses and their

Industry Associations and Chambers o Commercein association

with the Labor Unions and Consumer Associationswill embody an

Economic Forum, which will select an executive Economic Manag-

er to serve as the human ace o the Economy. All economic powers

and departments o the present-day Government will be transerred

to this Economic Executive, including the Central Bank (Te Fed

in the U.S.), the postal service, and the Departments o Commerce,

ransportation, and Energy. Tis is not some kind o state-planned

economy, but a business-ormed, entrepreneurial Association o As-

sociationsand so may be called an associative economy. Tis as-

sociative Economic Forum will be responsible or issuing currencies,

or negotiating trade agreements with other countries, or inrastruc-

ture and utilities, and or all aspects o our economic livelihood and

prosperity. An Associative Economy is more capitalist and libertar-

ian than present-day American-style corporocratic capitalism, be-cause in an Associative Economy there is literally no Government

regulation or ownership o any economic activity, including currency

issuance. On the other hand, economic activity is reed to ulfll its

original mission o ulflling human needs (ood, clothing, shelter).

Tis return to a humane, liveable economy might be called Mutual-

ity, Solidarity, Co-operation, Social Justice, Altruism, Fraternity, or

Brotherhood/Sisterhood. Tese qualities are not in conict with Pro-

essionalism and the striving or Success, Prosperity, and Abundance.

Te Political (Rights, Legal) sector is the continuation o

what we now know as Government. It is drastically streamlined tobecome a pure Rechtsstaat (Rights-State). It retains the constitutional

powers o law and human rights Governance, including police, jails,

working conditions, environmental quality o lie, and what military

is necessary. It divests all economic powers and cultural powers (in-

cluding education and healthcare) to the other two administrations.

Te Political sector also legislates what basic rights or benefts the

Economic sector and the Cultural sector must provide citizens, such

as the Right to a Dignifed Livelihood (in the Economic sphere) and

the Right o School Choice (in the Cultural sphere). Te Political sec-

tor consists o the Political Legislative branch (the U.S. Congress in

America) and Political Executive branch headed by the President

(or Prime Minister in parliamentary countries). Such practice

voting, town meetings, substantial consensus, direct democra

and reerendums are ftting or this sector. Te guiding princip

o the Political sphere are Democracy and Equality.

Te Cultural (or Civil Society) sector is composed o non-proft/non-governmental organizations o the country. o

a part o this sector, the organization must accept no Governm

money and no Advertising moneyit must be unded solelyreely given donations. And it must be working in a Cultural f

such as education, art, science, religion, health, sports, media, a

so orth. In a ull-blown Treeold Society, the Judicial branch (

court system itsel, not the police and jails) is transerred to

Cultural sector. A country-wide Cultural Council will select

executive Cultural Leader to serve as the ace o Civil Society a

Culture. Te Cultural administration is not a Governmenti

an Initiative o Initiatives. No cultural initiative even has to part

pate in the Council, and they will be ree to orm competing C

tural Councils. Competition is appropriate in the Cultural sphe

Te service areas o Cultural Councils o two dierent countrcould even territorially overlap. Freedom, Liberty, and Individu

ism (even Anarchy in its benevolent sense) are key qualities.

THE SEPARATION OF NATION AND STATOne salient eature o a ri-Sector Society is the structural sev

ance o Nationality (cultural identity) and Citizenship (polit

identity). Te ownership o all the cultural programs and ass

which are divested rom the Government (such as the Natio

School System, the National Park System and Monuments, the N

tional Library) is transerred to a new kind o NPO/NGO cal

a national-cultural organization (NCO), which will serve as body o the National Identity, and will retain the national ag

its organizational symbol. Te NCOs (such as Te Americ

People) will then be ree to oer cultural initiatives through

the world and depict their cultural territory on maps howe

they wish. National homelands will reely overlap in the sa

way that the ecclesiastically territories and provinces o the va

ous religious denominations have been ree to overlap since

Separation o Church and State. Te stateless nations such

the Basques, Kurds, and Indigenous peoples will be ree to decl

cultural independence, while their individual human members

main Citizens o a single Political State. A Treeold Society strturally transcends the Nation-State model. Tis concrete Pluri

tionalism will end many wars.

THE THREEFOLD IDEA WILL BE ACHIEVEin America through three constitutional amendments d

scribing the Separation o Business and State (which is

unspoken aim o the Occupy Wall Street movement), t

Separation o Culture and State, and the Separation o Eco

omy and Culture.

Travis Henry | https://sites.google.com/site/threefoldn

An Overview of the Treefold Idea